Topics include:

• Fostering development of new games enabled by AI
• Cross-pollination from AI subfields not traditionally used in games, like computational linguistics or machine vision
• Better living through AI – improving game development and design through new and interesting applications of AI, from intelligent design tools to automated QA
• Games aesthetics – formal or computational models of the experience of games
• Tutorials and demonstrations of experimental games, game development tools, systems, and resources
• Emerging areas – highlighting new fields appearing at the crossroads of AI and games / game development
• Failures – challenging topics that have yet to be solved and initial efforts at these challenges